Not content with now being lawfully allowed to force ISP's
and cell phone companies to turn over data about customers without a
warrant, the Bush administration is pushing for even more authority
to spy on American citizens, and has already been handed a 6 month window
within which to impose any surveillance policy it likes, and for that
program to remain legal in perpetuity.

Legislation signed Sunday gives the government the green
light to install permanent backdoors in communications systems that
allow warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, a blatant violation
of the 4th amendment.

The administration has a 6 month window in which to impose
any surveillance program it chooses and that program will go unchallenged
and remain legally binding in perpetuity - it cannot be revoked. Under
the definitions of the legislation, Bush has been granted absolute dictator
status for a minimum of 6 months, dovetailing with a recent
Presidential Decision Directive that also appoints Bush as a supreme
dictator during an announced emergency.

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If he so chooses, and so long as it's implemented
within the next half year, Bush could build a database of every website
visited by every American - and the policy would be immune from Congressional
challenge even after the "surveillance gap" legislation
reaches its sunset.

Since the Administration argues that the world's communication
networks now route many foreign to foreign calls and emails through
switches in the United States, it would be open season on the privacy
of millions of Americans.

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But the administration is far from finished with its latest
power grab, and is now pushing for liability for ISP's and cell phone
companies in order to head off court cases brought by the ACLU and others,
including retroactive protection which would neutralize all attempts
to challenge the administration's wiretapping activities spanning back
to 9/11.

"Prior to the law's passage, the nation's spy agencies, such
as the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency,
didn't need any court approval to spy on foreigners so long as the
wiretaps were outside the United States," writes
Wired's Ryan Singel.

"Now, those agencies are free to order services like Skype,
cell phone companies and arguably even search engines to comply with
secret spy orders to create back doors in domestic communication networks
for the nation's spooks."

One of the likely jewels of any new surveillance outpost would be the
collection of Google search term history, which is already openly being
stored by the company with the agreement of anyone that signs up for
a free Google account.

"In short, the law gives the Administration the power to order
the nation's communication service providers -- which range from Gmail,
AOL IM, Twitter, Skype, traditional phone companies, ISPs, internet
backbone providers, Federal Express, and social networks -- to create
permanent spying outposts for the federal government," concludes
Singel.

In a disturbingly ironic parallel, Zimbabwe's Communist
dictator Robert Mugabe also
approved a law Saturday that granted his government sweeping powers
to monitor all cell phone, land line and Internet communications.

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